Category Archives: Social Justice

FAQ: But doesn’t evidence show that women are just as likely to batter their partners as men?

February 8, 2008 · by · in clarifying-concepts, Family & Work, FWW, gender, oppression, violence

A: No. This is an often repeated claim based on either faulty understanding or outright misrepresentation of a few studies made using the CONFLICT TACTICS SCALE (CTS) or similar self-report surveys. One of the authors of the original study, Richard Gelles, categorically rejects this interpretation of his research, and has done ever since these factoids […]

Feminism Friday: Addressing claims of “female privilege” – The Military

February 1, 2008 · by · in Feminism Friday, FWW, masculinity, privilege, spot the strawfeminist

Chances are, whether or not you identify as feminist, if you’ve read much about women’s issues you’ll have heard of the Male Privilege Checklist. You also may have heard of at least one of the various Female Privilege Checklists that were made in response. I’m not here to rebut either of those lists word for […]

Feminism Friday: When women who advocate for women’s rights reject the label “feminist”

January 26, 2008 · by · in classism, discrimination, Feminism Friday, feminisms, privilege, race & racism, Solidarity & Sisterhood, womanism

2nd May 2008: This post has been updated in light of the recent flare-ups in the rounds of discussion about how mainstream feminism remains inadequate in engaging with matters of race. See footnote. There are many critics who view “feminism” (and the progressive movement generally) as focussing too much on the West, and too much […]

Blog for Choice Day 2008

January 22, 2008 · by · in announcements, reproductive justice, Social Justice

It’s the 35th anniversary of the U.S.A. Supreme Court in the case of Roe v. Wade, a decision which allowed the legalisation of terminations of pregnancy in the U.S.A. on what is widely viewed as essentially a technicality, which is why the case is still so important. There is no Federal legislation decriminalising abortion, merely […]

Feed the FAQ: “rape apologist” definitions, clarifications and links

January 22, 2008 · by · in feminism, privilege, sexism, violence

I’d like to get some wider input into this one. The suggestion was made that we need a specific FAQ, and I think we do. This was my first take in comments answering that suggestion:

In which the moderator apologises for dropping the ball

January 10, 2008 · by · in announcements, FF101-admin, FWW, netiquette, Social Justice

I have been distracted over the holiday break, and this has meant that over the last month or so I have allowed some commenters through whom I would normally have cut off at the pass. The tone of the blog has suffered badly as a result. Those commentors are aggressive and are discouraging other voices, […]

Feminism Friday: that “why are Western feminists such cowards about atrocities in other countries?” lie

December 7, 2007 · by · in clarifying-concepts, Feminism Friday, op-ed, oppression, spot the strawfeminist

Shorter Pamela Bone: feminists are such cowardly hypocrites for being against FGM and rape in war whenever any culture does it instead of just specially castigating Islamic societies where such brutalities occur. I posted over at Hoyden About Town a few days ago with more background to Bone’s article about how she bravely spoiled a […]

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